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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related deals between Pyongyang and Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on Thursday. "The DPRK (North Korea) continues actively to …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ten thousand rolls of tobacco, 12 bottles of Sake, and a handful of second-hand Mercedes-Benz cars are among the latest reported breaches by North Korea of a U.N. ban on luxury goods sales to the reclusive state, according to a confidential draft U.N. report. Japan told a U.N. panel of experts …

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has resumed construction work on an experimental light water reactor (ELWR) in a move that could extend its capacity to produce more material for nuclear weapons, website 38North reported on Thursday. Based on April 30 satellite images, work halted in December at the reactor had now re-started, …

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has been quietly and gently pressuring North Korea to scrap plans for a third nuclear test, said two sources with knowledge of closed-door discussions between the countries, but there is no indication how the North will react. If North Korea goes ahead with the test, China would consider taking …

(Reuters) - North Korea will make their first appearance at the Paralympic Games in London this year, pro-North media said on Wednesday. The secretive communist nation sent Paralympic athletes to Beijing for training last week, according to the Tokyo-based Chosun Sinbo newspaper. The paper, viewed as a mouthpiece for the …

ST GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - The United Nations nuclear chief said on Friday he would not be surprised if North Korea were to carry out a new nuclear test, amid speculation the secretive Asian state is preparing to conduct the third such explosion since 2006. "We don't have inspectors on the ground. We are following …

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the United States was willing to work with North Korea if it changed its ways, and also said more pressure should be brought to bear on Sudan and Syria. Speaking in Beijing at the end of two-days of high-level meetings overshadowed by a crisis …

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China on Thursday to help defuse tension over Iran, North Korea and other global flashpoints, seeking to salvage talks that have been overwhelmed by negotiations over a dissident. In her opening remarks to the two-day U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, …

BEIJING (Reuters) - China should help make clear to North Korea that it should avoid "further provocation", the U.S. Secretary of State said in remarks in Beijing on Thursday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her opening remarks for the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue, also said that it is critical to keep …

BEIJING (Reuters) - China should help make clear to North Korea that it should avoid "further provocation", the U.S. Secretary of State said in remarks in Beijing on Thursday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her opening remarks for the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue, also said that it is critical to keep …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council sanctions committee on Wednesday added three North Korean state companies to a U.N. blacklist of firms banned from international trade in response to Pyongyang's rocket launch last month. The decision by the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee came after …

SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 250 flights in and out of South Korea have experienced GPS signal jamming since the weekend, with North Korea high on the list of suspects, officials said on Wednesday. Similar jamming in the past was traced to the reclusive North, which last month breached U.S. Security Council resolutions with …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan have submitted a list of about 40 North Korean companies to the U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee for possible blacklisting due to Pyongyang's recent rocket launch, envoys said on Tuesday. The committee, which includes all 15 Security …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned North Korea on Monday that further "provocative acts" would deepen its isolation, amid concern the country will soon conduct a nuclear test, and said that it could no longer get the world to "purchase" it's good behaviour. Obama told a joint news conference with Japanese …

MOSCOW (Reuters) - China and Russia agree entirely with each other's positions on the crisis in Syria and on North Korea's nuclear programme, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said on Saturday in Moscow. "The sides hold 100 percent coinciding positions on the issues of North Korea and Syria," Cheng, who was accompanying …

VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea, believed to be preparing for a third nuclear test, would probably be able to make and explode a uranium device for the first time after earlier relying on plutonium, a former chief U.N. inspector said. If it were to do so, that would show North Korea had developed the technology to produce …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged North Korea not to take any further "provocative" actions, including carrying out a nuclear test. North Korea has almost completed preparations for a third nuclear test, a senior source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing has said, an act that …

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday issued a veiled warning to neighbouring North Korea not to carry out what is widely expected to be an imminent nuclear test. North Korea has almost completed preparations for a third nuclear test, a senior source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters, an act that would …

LONDON (Reuters) - The United States will face old political foes North Korea on the soccer field once again at the London Olympics after the draw for the women's tournament threw the two sides together on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea has almost completed preparations for a third nuclear test, a senior source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters, which will draw further international condemnation following a failed rocket launch if it goes ahead. The isolated and impoverished state sacrificed the chance …

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Chinese firm that intelligence agencies believe provided North Korea with the body of an off-road transport vehicle used to carry missiles appears to have a press release on its website that boasts about the sale, U.N. diplomats told Reuters. Washington suspects that the Chinese firm, Hubei …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday it had raised with China new allegations that a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade, despite a U.N. ban on such sales. The Obama administration suspects that the Chinese manufacturer supplied chassis …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday it had raised with China allegations that a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade, in defiance of a U.N. ban on such military sales. (Reporting By Alister Bull; Editing by Sandra Maler)